The song 'Om namoh sukhadayni...' is an aarti (hymn) written by Sanjay Upadhaya and composed by 32-year-old Mayuresh Pai.
Singing stalwarts Lata Mangeshkar and Pandit Jasraj have teamed up for the first time to record a song for an upcoming Marathi movie, Aai Tujha Ashirward.
The song 'Om namoh sukhadayni...' is an aarti (hymn) written by Sanjay Upadhaya and composed by 32-year-old Mayuresh Pai. Besides the two greats, Suresh Wadkar is the third singer for the devotional song.
On the coup of sorts achieved by him, Mayuresh says it was not much difficult to unite the trio.
"I had already worked with Didi (Lata Mangeshkar as she is affectionately known) and Suresh Wadkar, who is my guru. So getting them on the board was not difficult," he said.
Also, Pt Jasraj readily agreed as Aai Tujha Aashirwad is his home production, he said.
The movie is directed by Pt Jasraj's wife and daughter of V Shantaram, Madhura and is produced by Sarang Dev, her son would release on August 20.
Conceding that he is too young to give any music lessons to Lata and Pt Jasraj, Mayuresh said instead he himself sang the song and gave the recorded version to both of them.
"I asked them to just listen to the song and then sing it. Though sung separately, they heard it together after the recording was complete," he told PTI.
While on one hand, he made the legends "sing" to his tunes, on the other hand, he also gave a chance to the kin of Pt Jasraj, Pt Jitendra Abhisheki and Vasant Desai.
Mekhala Khadikar, daughter of Pt Jitendra Abhisheki and daughter-in-law of Meena, Lata Mangeshkar's sister; Ishwari Pandit, Pt Jasraj's grand daughter and Nachiket, grandson of music composer Vasant Desai have together crooned for the first time for a movie.
"Every time there is no need to take big names. New talent too should be given a chance," he said.
Another first is a fusion of bhajan and qawaali tried for the first time in Marathi.
"There was a particular situation in which a Hindu is staying with a Muslim family and both are praying at the same time. It has been sung by Suresh Wadkar and Rakesh Pandit of 'Tu chiz badi hai mast mast' fame," he added.
Mayuresh has albums like 'Antarnad', and 'Sadgi' to his credit in which he has worked with Lata Mangeshkar. Also, he along with another music composer Kaushal Inamdar had recently petitioned Shiv Sena chief Balasahebh Thackeray to ask FM channels to play Marathi songs.
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